{"id":303873,"date":"2019-12-03T10:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T04:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303873"},"modified":"2019-12-03T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:11:53","slug":"indigo-asks-pilots-to-stop-pushing-airbus-engines-to-limit-after-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-asks-pilots-to-stop-pushing-airbus-engines-to-limit-after-shutdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo asks pilots to stop pushing Airbus engines to limit after shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has told its pilots to stop pushing engines on its new Airbus SE jets to the limit when the planes are climbing, after India\u2019s aviation regulator said the practice may have contributed to turbines failing in the air. <\/p>\n<p>All the budget airline\u2019s A320neo aircraft now use a lower thrust setting following take off, according to a spokeswoman from IndiGo, which has suffered 13 engine shutdowns during ascents this year. The decision was taken \u201cin order to make every possible effort to minimize exposure of engines,\u201d she wrote in an email, adding that manufacturer Pratt &amp; Whitney stated there\u2019s no evidence of a connection between climbing procedure and engine incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndiGo has told its pilots to stop pushing engines on its new Airbus SE jets to the limit when the planes are climbing, after India\u2019s aviation regulator said the practice may have contributed to turbines failing in the air. All the budget airline\u2019s A320neo aircraft now use a lower thrust setting following take off, according to a spokeswoman from IndiGo, which has suffered 13 engine shutdowns during ascents this year. The decision was taken \u201cin order to make every possible effort to minimize exposure of engines,\u201d she wrote in an email, adding that manufacturer Pratt &amp; Whitney stated there\u2019s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}